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From RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
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Subject Pointer Events finalized, but Apple/Google say no
Date Sat, 28 Feb 2015 21:15:28 +0000 (UTC)
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From the «pointing at you with one middle finger» department:
Title: Pointer Events finalised; Apple, Google refuse to support it
Author: Thom Holwerda
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 11:05:11 -0500
Link: http://osnews.com/story/28340/Pointer_Events_finalised_Apple_Google_refuse_to_support_it

But here's the current reality, one that has been accurate for awhile. Apple
has a very, very strong influence over what standards get adopted and what
standards do not. Partly it's market share, partly it's developer bias (see,
for example, how other vendors eventually felt forced to start supporting the
webkit prefix due to vendor prefix abuse). Apple simply does not play well with
other vendors when it comes to standardization. The same sort of things we once
criticized Microsoft for doing long ago, we give Apple a pass on today. They're
very content to play in their own little sandbox all too often. All this
specifically pertaining to the Touch Events/Pointer Events dichotomy. The
latter is superior, but Apple refuses to support it, while the former couldn't
be adopted because of patent threats from Apple. So, Pointer Events is now
finalised, but Apple will not implement it. They're not the only ones to blame
for yet another childish, nonsensical, anti-consumer spat in web
standardisation - Google is just as much to blame. This is what a Google
engineer has to say on the matter: No argument that PE is more elegant. If we
had a path to universal input that all supported, we would be great with that,
but not all browsers will support PE. If we had Apple on board with PE, we’d
still be on board too. Android is the biggest mobile platform, and Chrome is
the most popular desktop browser. Had Google the stones, they'd implement
Pointer Events and help paint Apple in a corner. They refuse to do so, thereby
contributing just as much to this nonsense as Apple. All this reeks of
specifically wanting to hurt the web just because these companies are
competitors elsewhere. Bunch of children.


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Pointer Events finalized, but Apple/Google say no RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-02-28 21:15 +0000
  Re: Pointer Events finalized, but Apple/Google say no Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-02-28 22:57 +0000
  Re: Pointer Events finalized, but Apple/Google say no Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-03-01 11:18 +0000

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